On This Day (Jan 22), George Foreman Destroys Joe Frazier for the HW Crown

Great beating, hard fight to watch for big Frazier fans such as myself.


Foreman was ferocious.

 

Frazier undoubtedly would have kept getting up and marching forward until his physical body failed.

A rare human in terms of self-belief and refusal to accept failure.

 

Foreman yelled at Frazier's corner....after one of the late knockdowns:
"Do you want me to k!ll him?".

 

Again a fight that demonstrates how certain styles or physical types can mean so much in a boxing ring. After the destruction of Frazier then Norton everyone knew Ali would be crucified by Foreman before they fought, and actually feared for his safety. But Ali' s psychological warfare and his mental and physical toughness allowed him to weather the storm, wear Foreman out. Foreman's endurance gets judged unfairly in my opinion based on the results from his fight with Ali. Norton and Frazier gave Ali pure Hell. Styles make fights....

 

Wow....I guess Frazier has surpassed Rocky as the ESB whipping boy. This is about the harshest I have seen Frazier critiqued. Not even sure how to respond

 

I do tell my smart kid being smart doesn't amount to much if you don't have initiative and motivation. People that aren't as smart get ahead because of hard work, self-belief, and initiative.

Even if thats true about his IQ, he sure beat some guys who had a higher ring IQ...

 

I always kinda liked Tyson’s take on the subject:

https://me.me/i/everyone-thinks-this-is-a-tough-mans-sport-this-is-5069350

 

Yessir.

 

Talkin trash about Frazier is like talkin trash about my momma!

May as well....

 

Being one dimensional doesn't equal having a "ring IQ of a bucket of rocks".

Frazier only had one way, like Tyson, Marciano and plenty of others. He was hardly going to dance around the perimeter jabbing and wearing Foreman down.

For the record he and Futch did actually try the alternate strategy in the rematch but it wasn't Joe and was never going to work.

Foreman was still quite unproven and for all anyone truly knew one of those hooks might have changed the fight. No-one knew Foreman could shake off Frazier's hooks as if they were nothing going into the fight.

 

Again,styles make fights, Frazier met a fighter in Foreman that had the perfect physicality to neutralize everything he did well. That brute strength to push Frazier off balance,and then nail him before he could set his feet was a perfect demonstration of a fighter seeming born to defeat another fighter. (Also Hearns vs Duran can be added to this scenario) All the nonsense about Frazier having a fight IQ of a bunch of rocks is utter nonsense. And his low fight IQ didn't help 33 other victims, with his 4 losses coming to two men as a pro.